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Snow lying on trees

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  • 20-12-2010 10:07pm
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    Son Of A Vidic
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    I got Castlewellan Gold planted around the perimeter of my site and I’m concerned because there’s a fair bit of snow lying on them at the moment. Overall, there’s about 7-8 inches of snow lying around the garden. They average about 5.5/ 6.5 feet in height and survived last winter relatively unscathed. The top part of some trees are bending/dropping, so this is my question. Should I remove the snow from the trees or should I just leave it? It reached -17c last night and I’m wondering will the snow offer some protection/insulation against the extreme temperature I mentioned? All advice will be much appreciated.


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    redser7
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    A covering of snow can be good insulation for plants in bed and borders. But you should defo shake snow off trees and shrubs to prevent branches breaking or stressing


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    mountainy man
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    redser7 wrote: »
    A covering of snow can be good insulation for plants in bed and borders. But you should defo shake snow off trees and shrubs to prevent branches breaking or stressing

    Yep agree:)


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